If you think that electric cars are a new invention, you don’t know the history of Mercedes-Benz. In 1906—around the time of the first passenger flight and the debut of the first US movie theater—Mercedes was engineering a battery-powered vehicle.

As a bastion of innovative technology, the new S-Class Coupe offers the optional Driver Assist Package that comes with a litany of Mercedes-Benz’s most groundbreaking safety and driving assistance systems.